WRONG ANSWER, RCMP COMMISSIONER LUCKI

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki has dismissed the idea of a special prosecutor to look into numerous claims that women in the national police force were assaulted by colleagues.


Lucki told the House of Commons public safety committee Wednesday that the details were provided in confidence to former Supreme Court justice Michel Bastarache, who wrote an independent report on harassment of women in the RCMP.  Bastarache’s report, “Broken Dreams Broken Lives,” concluded that change cannot come from within the RCMP. It called for a deep external review of the institution and the future of the force as a federal policing organization.

As a result, Lucki said, it is up to individual women to come forward to police to seek a criminal investigation.